Alex Christy
HBO’s John Oliver voiced his disapproval of those who praised the vice presidential debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz for its civility on Sunday’s installment of Last Week Tonight. Oliver wondered “why do manners matter” because the GOP ticket is proposing a list of things he does not like.
Oliver began by teeing up a montage of news clips, “In contrast to the presidential debate, Walz and…
If journalism professor and PolitiFact founder Bill Adair meant to increase faith in the fact-checking industry with his appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, he failed miserably. Adair told host Jon Stewart on Monday that the reason why Republicans get fact-checked more is because “lying... has just become a culture” in conservative circles.
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Earlier in the interview, Adair claimed…
If journalism professor and PolitiFact founder Bill Adair meant to increase faith in the fact-checking industry with his appearance on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, he failed miserably. Adair told host Jon Stewart on Monday that the reason why Republicans get fact-checked more is because “lying... has just become a culture” in conservative circles.
Holding up a copy of Adair’s book, Stewart…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz to his Monday show for a softball interview about his life and to offer him an opportunity to promote Kamala Harris while bashing Donald Trump and JD Vance.
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Later still, after a game of “weird or not weird,” Kimmel wondered, “This has got to be weird. Bruce Springsteen made a lengthy video endorsing you on Friday. Did…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz to his Monday show for a softball interview about his life and to offer him an opportunity to promote Kamala Harris while bashing Donald Trump and JD Vance.
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Walz replied that he and his wife built the prom sets as he and Kimmel marveled at how he went from that to vice presidential nominee. Speaking of getting the VP…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel welcomed Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz to his Monday show for a softball interview about his life and to offer him an opportunity to promote Kamala Harris while bashing Donald Trump and JD Vance.
A typical question Kimmel would ask was, “I do want to ask you about being the lunchroom supervisor. What does that entail? What are you watching for?”
Walz would…
There are puff pieces and then there is whatever senior climate correspondent David Schechter cooked up on CBS Saturday Morning when he chose to highlight actress Jane Fonda’s campaigning for “climate-friendly politicians.”
Schechter claimed, “For most of her 85 years, Fonda's been more than an actor, she’s been a regular presence on the front lines of causes that are bigger than herself.”
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Far-left author Ta-Nehisi Coates continued his book tour on Thursday when he joined MSNBC’s Joy Reid on The ReidOut. Together, the duo would recall Coates’s trip to Senegal and lament the fact that people were doing “what, I guess, they do on the beach” outside of his hotel near an important historical landmark for the slave trade.
Reid began, “I just want to start with this, kind of, you tell…
CNN’s Chris Wallace took his 1960 election-related book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, where he lamented that the “crazy” Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity has made Special Counsel Jack Smith’s life more difficult and sarcastically claimed it was “totally coincidental” that it was a 6-3 ruling along partisan lines with three Trump appointees in the…
MSNBC’s Joy Reid likes to fashion herself as a good race and gender conscious progressive, which is why it was weird when she declared on Monday’s edition of The ReidOut that it was natural that Donald Trump said he admires President William McKinley because the 1890s were a time that was “only great for men like Donald Trump.” At the same time, Reid had nice things to say about segregationist…